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...Kenworthy wore white tennis shoes during the contest. Appearantly, the Harvard captain didn't own a pair of turf shoes, and, as regular cleats would have been useless on the phony turf, had to where the sneakers. The conditions at Schoellkopf Field were described by one observer as "sub-Arctic...
Then, in August, when the Pentagon sent a military submarine on a maneuver through Canadian territory near the Arctic without asking permission, Brian Mulroney's Tory government hung its head in shame for the country's impotence. Criticism was lost in the wind; Canada had no clout...
...Cornell Daily Sun. After graduating with a B.A. in 1921, White roamed the U.S. for six months in a Model T Ford, and spent a year as a reporter for the Seattle Times before taking a job as a mess-boy on a trading ship in the Arctic...
...Clemens' view, the discovery indicates that at least some dinosaur species were not sensitive tropic dwellers but were able to survive through chilly and dark Arctic winters lasting from November to February. That theory tends to undermine the currently popular asteroid version of the apocalypse. According to that model, all dinosaurs perished when an asteroid or comet collided with the earth and tossed obscuring dust into the air, blocking sunlight and lowering ground temperatures. Clemens counters that dinosaurs living up north would hardly have noticed the difference, let alone be wiped out. Says he: "It doesn't matter if your...
...Paris of Kertesz's early career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...